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To capture the extraordinary story of the emperor penguins,
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the Dynasties team had to travel to the end of the Earth.
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Neumayer research station will be home to the film crew
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for nearly a year.
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There's about 70 tonnes worth of food.
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We've got about 15 boxes of white cabbage.
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Neumayer has everything they need.
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But it's a different world outside.
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It's really easy to feel quite comfortable inside, and...
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This place, it's...
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wild, really wild.
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It's worth reminding ourselves of that every now and again.
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Oh, I've got to go inside!
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The crew need five layers of clothing before they can even
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think of leaving the base.
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As the final plane departs, they know that it'll be the last
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till winter is over in eight months' time.
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Now the plane's just left and that's us on our own, now.
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Nobody will be coming in case something happened.
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We are now all by ourselves.
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When the team head out to explore, they discover
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just how careful they'll have to be working in this hostile world.
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We've come across an enormous crack,
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so we're probably on an unsafe piece of ice at the moment.
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Oh, my God!
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Did you just hear that?
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A deep crack in the edge of the ice shelf like this
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can be extremely dangerous.
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Oh, my word, it just goes straight down.
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This area's definitely not safe.
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An incredible reminder of how...
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..how unpredictable this place is.
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It's just mind-blowing.
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Six miles from the station, the permanent ice meets the ocean.
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This is where the penguins will soon be heading.
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Once the sea is frozen, the team will have to cross
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the treacherous, newly-formed ice to reach them.
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I've found a decent spot for the, uh, for the guys to lower me down
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onto the sea ice for the first time.
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So Will's going to act as a bit of a safety man for me,
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in case anything goes wrong.
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These are our first few steps onto the sea ice.
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It definitely feels a bit nerve-racking,
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knowing that there's a couple of hundred meters
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of water underneath us.
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To find a safe route, the crew must check the depth of the ice
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all the way.
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Ice around 30 centimetres and above is stable.
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This is a great moment for us.
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We finally made it to the colony.
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Yeah, it's really special.
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When it's this still and there's this many birds in front of you,
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And...
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It makes the place look absolutely beautiful.
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A few weeks later, the sun sets for the last time,
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and Antarctica reveals its harsher side.
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We think it's probably minus 50.
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The sun is somewhere below the horizon.
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It still won't be visible for another...
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..six weeks, probably.
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Erm, so this is something that we're going to have to get used to.
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It's easier said than done.
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Oh, God!
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And then, the storms come.
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We've got proper, proper weather now,
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and really, really strong winds.
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The colony's just in front of us.
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Sometimes, it disappears behind the snow.
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It's been hovering around 100kph now, since this picked up.
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What these penguins are having to put up with out there,
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it's just mind-blowing.
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We're finally coming to the end of this storm.
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There's all sorts of weird rattling sounds and...
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To be quite honest, I don't know how this station
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manages to stay standing.
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Finally, the sun returns,
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but the storms continue.
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A break in the weather reveals something the team had not expected.
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But I can hear a heck of a lot of noise coming
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from just over the brow.
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Oh, man!
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Oh, my word.
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There are... There are birds down there with chicks.
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Film crews have to capture events as they unfold,
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whatever their feelings.
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I know it's natural, but it's, um...
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It's bloody hard to watch.
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Oh, my word.
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I think we're just going to have to observe them for a bit
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and see exactly what's happening.
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We've come back up onto the top because the weather is coming in
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again and we were just about to pack up,
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and an adult with a chick on its feet managed to
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make its way up.
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It's amazing, it's using its beak, and then when it got to this last
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little lip, erm, its wings.
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Oh, man, if only the other 50 in there could do the same.
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Hopefully the weather will clear again tomorrow and we can get back
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down here, and fingers crossed, there'll be a few less birds
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in this hole.
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Two days later, the weather allows the team to return to the colony.
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Already, the gully has claimed more casualties.
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The team decide to act.
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We've given it a lot of thought.
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We've decided that we are definitely going to dig a shallow ramp
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that they will hopefully use.
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It's very rare for the film crew to intervene.
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But they realise that they may be able to save at least some
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of these birds simply by digging a few steps in the ice.
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Oh, man! Will, look.
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Oh, my goodness.
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We were literally just about to leave but
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the first birds are definitely making their way out,
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which is brilliant.
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So, hopefully, they'll just make their way back to the colony
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and them and their chicks will have a much better chance
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of survival, because there's no chance that they were going
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to survive down there at all.
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The crew follow the chicks as they grow up.
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And after months with the emperors,
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their time in Antarctica is finally coming to a close.
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We're coming to the end of the trip now, and, um...
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Yeah, we've had a...
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We've had an amazing year, and...
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I'm obviously desperate to get home.
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But there's, um...
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There's an odd part of me that doesn't want to leave.
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What a privilege, eh?
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Next time:
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A lioness battles against the odds...
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..to protect her family.
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